Romance Lullaby Poems

My Levi’s Lullaby
By Melissa Ann Hardin
End of April 2012

If I could take your hand to hold forever I would, to light your days with the...

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The Gift That I Give You                   ...

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Devotion Poem, Our Next Lives

(For Jim)

Good morning!    
Ten-thousand good-mornings
We have seen.  At the least!
Together....and so I dream
Of what could be in...

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Re-Creating Peace

The basket of castoffs is full. 
No one can wear clothes, torn and stained. 
Holes and rips that show use. 
The scissors cut them...

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The Dawn Ballet

Let me dance for You, 
before I put my feet upon the floor. 
Let me sing out your praise, 
before the day has...

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One More

Ingredients are a funny thing. 
Timing is probably more important. 
But it is hard to say really. 

I cooked all day, but…
I wanted it...

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Cartoons

Saturday morning, early, 
we sat around the toob…(tv)
We laughed. 

Road runner was too fast, 
the coyote was always too slow. 
Thundar was a Barbarian, 
and...

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Empty alleys dotted with dry colours,
grasses slowly beginning to turn yellow.
Catching crickets at dusk, following the stream of the wind,
leads me to dreams of romance...

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HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.

The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendiferous precision.

Drama drops onto piano keys
occasionally taking a gentle...

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We thought our life was happy,
smiling like we knew a joke;
it all started when we said-  I do honey,
lovely words we each spoke.

Our love...

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In the night of the mystic garden
The light specks fill the space
The quietness give me a peace of mind the fog rises hiding in the...

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In the night of the mystic garden
The light specks fill the space
The quietness give me a peace of mind the fog rises hiding in the...

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Shades of yellow, orange and red
Fallen leaves much widespread
A sunset sky all shades of rose
Afternoon skies with arched rainbows
During this time my love I met
Much...

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The night has fallen, across thy kingdom.
The moon has risen, so do stars.
Yet there was light, from your quarter.
Forgive this foolish guard, for ask bluntly.
What...

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Fragrance passed by
While the Mom was busy with lullaby
The kid was nearly asleep,
The love hearts were ready to greet.

But alas! 
The Monster peeping through the...

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